Vehicle-wheel.



T. E. MURRAY.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

APPLICATION HLED SEPT. 27. I915 Patented Jan. 16, 1917.

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UNITED s'rnrrns PA: onnion.

THOMAS E. MURRAY, OF NEW VEHICLE-WI1EEL YQItK, IN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. '16, 1.917.

Application filed ieptember W, 1915. Serial No. 52.78%}.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. lliUun-m, a citizen of the United States, residing ill;

New York, in thecounty of New York and State of'New York, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Ve-- hicle-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

The invention Wheels, and consists in the construction, hereinafter set forth, whereby the brake pulley is combined with the Wheel body.

The object of the invention is to simplify and strengthen the Wheel.

In the accompanying drawings-l*igure 1 is an elevation of the Wheel body and brake pulley. Fig. 2 is a section thereof on the line a:, m of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4: are similar sections of modified forms of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. i

' The wheel body A is made of sheet metal,

and is 'here shown with tubular spokes B integral with the nave C.

D is the disk of the brake pulley, having the usual flange E for the brake shoe, not and a central opening for the Wheel The metal of the brake disk D around axle.

homogeneously said central opening is united, preferably by electric welding, to a flange F on the nave C. Between each relates to metal vehicle spoke l3 and said disk I.) is interposed a metal spacing piece (i, end said spacing piecee ere ilOlll'ilgtilfiU1153i united to the disk and to said spokes. se 'nu'ato spacing pieces (3: oi. metal between said dish. and said spokes, I may strike up 'ztions H from the metal of the dish, and weld said projections to said spokes; as shown in Fig. 3: or 1 may strike up it projection .l' on each spoke and weld all of the projections I to the disk I).

I claim:

1. A metal Wheel for vehicles hzwil'ig a. hollow sheet metal body, comprising a. olive and tubular spokes thereon, a brake disk,

and a pliu-ality of spacing blocks interposed between said spokes and said disk.

A metal wheel for vehicles lmving a hollow sheet metal body, comprising a naxe instead minterposing 

